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Reviews
Ingenu/e Magazine – The Holloway
Milton Hide The Holloway Ingenue Magazine edition 40 Milton Hide are Sussex based Jim and Josie Tipler. On the album cover it states ‘To walk along a holloway...
The Holloway – Darren’s Music Blog
https://darrensmusicblog.com/2023/04/16/latest-folk-reviews-amelia-hogan-rura-milton-hide-joy-dunlop-and-megson/ Milton Hide – The Holloway Following their...
Fatea – The Holloway
Reviews FATEA Artist:Milton Hide Album: The Holloway Label: Long Way Home Music Tracks: 11 The difficult second album has been a cliché for almost as long as...
Liverpool Sound & Vision – The Holloway
Milton Hide: The Holloway. Album Review. Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * The temperature rose, the emotions were felt and left to simmer, and it is...
Get Ready To Rock! – The Holloway
Album review: MILTON HIDE – The Holloway Posted on January 29, 2023 by jason Website [Release date 31.03.23] Get Ready to Rock! Milton Hide (AKA husband and...
Folk Radio – The Holloway
Album Reviews Milton Hide – The Holloway written by Mike Davies 28 March, 2023 FOLK RADIO Milton Hide‘s ‘The Holloway‘ is named after a tree-tunnelled path in...
Folk London – The Holloway
Milton Hide - The Holloway FOLK LONDON Long Way Home Music LWHM017 The declared aim of this 11-track album is to “present these songs as if we’re performing...
Darren’s Music Blog
"…‘Temperature’s Rising’ will also help bring the duo’s unique talents as songwriters, singers and musicians to a much wider audience…" Hot on the heels of...
Folking.com – Temperature’s Rising
"…Temperature’s Rising should deservedly seem them greatly widening their fanbase horizons.…" The debut album by Wilmington, East Sussex acoustic duo Jim and...
The Living Tradition – Temperature’s Rising
"…The artwork and overall production of this CD is superb, especially considering the album was created during the trials and tribulations of ‘lockdown’! …" ...
FATEA – Temperature’s Rising
"… with its superior story-telling and well-crafted arrangements. This is one of the strongest debuts of the year so far…" Milton Hide emerged out of the...
Get Ready To Rock – Temperature’s Rising
"Milton Hide display many sides of their musical background, from the rock with prog leanings of the title track, through to ‘Riding The Whale’, a beautiful...
Spiral Earth – Temperature’s Rising
"There’s a touch of Fleetwood Mac in the title ‘Temperature’s Rising’ and ‘Making Progress’ makes good use of Josie’s fine voice in a song that reeks of...
News
45/60 – Sweeps Festival part 2
Part 2 - see 44/60 City Wall Stage Boley Hill Stage 5th May 2024 Jo was recovering from a long lasting chest infection and we even wondered if we were going...
44/60 – Sweeps Festival Part 1
We were delighted to be invited back to Rochester Sweeps again this year and were booked to play The City Wall (wine bar) Stage and Boley Hill Stage, which is...
43/60 – Bluebell Roots April
with special guest Johnny Campbell. 28th April 2024 at the Bluebell Kitchen. This session was pretty well attended with some regulars who hadn't been for a...
42/60 – ELF in Battle part 4
26 April 2024. Final part of ELF, Every Last Friday mini music marathon in Battle. A quick trot down the High Street the The Abbey Hotel. This was our final...
41/60 – ELF in Battle part 3
26 April 2024, Part 3 of ELF, Every Last Friday - music marathon in Battle. Venue 3 this time was Sarah's Cellar and the duo playing before us had obviously...
40/60 – ELF in Battle part 2
26th April 2024. On to the Bull for part 2 of ELF (every last Friday, the monthly mini music marathon in Battle). When we played here last time we were on a...
39/60 – ELF in Battle
25th APRIL 2024 We were back again at the monthly mini music marathon in Battle. This time we started at The Kings head (Ye Olde Kings Head) which wasn't too...
A summer of gigs coming up
We are very excited about all of our gigs this Summer. We have lots of festival and folk club bookings plus several 'Your Stories In Song' events. Find full...
Bungaroosh!
We'll be releasing our next album in Spring 2025, called Bungaroosh and YOU can help us get it off the ground. Over the next few days we'll release various...
38/60 – Royal Oak, Tunbridge Wells. 5/4/24
We're back again! See post number 2 in the series (https://www.miltonhide.com/2-60-the-royal-oak-tunbridge-wells-8-9-23/) . This time our mate Delby couldn't...
Competitions
We decided to enter four competitions this year - Talent Is Timeless; Purbeck Rising; Milkmaid Songwriters; pFite Talent is Timeless is a great initiative...
37/60 – Bluebell Roots with M G Boulter, 31 March 24
Yes, we were back in the Bluebell Kitchen again - 3 times in one month! This was the March Bluebell Roots event featuring a first half of floor spots and a...
36/60 – The Section, 17 March 24
We were pleased to be invited to play at this new event in Arlington organised by Bruce Knapp and friends. We've know Bruce for a while now, he's played on...
35/60 – Livestream from Arlington, 13 March 24
A Your Stories in Song event We hadn’t live-streamed for a while using Streamyard, something we did a lot during lockdown, so paid our mate and all round...
34/60 – Live on Radio Reverb, 11 March 24
A whirlwind, hundred-mile-an-hour stop at the Radio Reverb studio in Brighton to chat with the inimitable Pete Jones. This man is a force of nature and was...
33/60 – Twickfolk, 3 March 24
Another memorable evening, a lovely event run by lovely people.The train journey there wasn’t as straightforward as to Croydon and we were wary of being...
32/60 St Edith Folk, Sevenoaks – 1 March 24
This was our second time playing St Edith Folk Club. It’s in a great hall in Otford, near Sevenoaks. That’s just over an hour’s drive away, not easy...
31/60 – Bluebell Roots with Daria Kulesh, 24 February 24
Daria Kulesh is lovely and was really helpful getting us set up as we arrived pretty late, always rushing and that makes it very stressful. We’d had a busy...
30/60 – Crowborough U3A, 15 Feb 24.
A Your Stories in Song event. Crowborough Community Centre is a bit special - it’s a HUGE hall with an enormous stage suitable for several levels of flats....
29/60 – Croydon folk club, 12 Feb 2024
It’s always a pleasure coming to Croydon Folk Club. Brian and Jenny are a lovely couple who run the club, always the first to arrive to set up display boards,...
Livestream!
Wednesday 13th March, 8.30pm GMT Join us, Jim and Jo, as we sing some of our songs and tell the stories behind them live online. We'll ask you to share some...
Songwriting session in Norwich
Time & Location 12 May 2024, 12:00 – 16:00 Norwich, 11-15 Fye Bridge St, Norwich NR3 1LJ, UK About the event Join singer-songwriters Milton Hide for...
28/60 – Acoustic Sessions, Rainham, February 10th.
This is a very special gig and this was the second time we have played it. Held in the lovely Oasthouse Theatre in Rainham www.oasthousetheatre.co.uk, the...
27/60 – Old Oak Inn, Arlington. 9th Feb 2024.
Back once again in our local. There was a good crowd when we got there including some of our neighbours and friends form Bluebell Roots, and most people...
26 /60 – Frontier Bar, Eastbourne. February 7th, 2024.
This event was organised as a Your Stories In Song event (our first one) with Compass Community Arts. They had wanted to hold the event as part of Eastbourne...
22 – 25 of 60 – Bluebell Roots sessions
I had managed to miss out the Bluebell Roots monthly sessions in my earlier ’60 by 60’ write ups so am going back to October, November of 2023 and January of...
21/60 E.L.F Battle – Abbey Hotel
Part 5 of 5 gigs for E.L.F - Every Last Friday in Battle. The previous duo were still playing when we arrived at the final venue, the Abbey Hotel. And then...
20/60 E.L.F Battle – Sarah’s Cellar
Part 4 of 5 gigs for E.L.F - Every Last Friday in Battle. The next venue, a bit further down the High Street and down a sideway, was Sarah’s Cellar which was...
19/60 E.L.F Battle – The Bull
Part 3 of 5 gigs for E.L.F - Every Last Friday in Battle. Next up was The Bull, right opposite the Taproom. It did take quite a while to cross the road though...
18/60 E.L.F Battle – King’s Head
Part 2 of 5 gigs for E.L.F - Every Last Friday in Battle. We finished the previous gig on time, got packed up quick, and we’re into the next venue with a...
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